Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...
Immediately after getting elected to the Legislative Council (known as Legco) Mboya welded the seven other newly elected African members into a solid bloc "firmly and unequivocally opposed" to the constitution. Rather than encourage the plan as it stood, the eight refused to accept the two ministerial posts reserved for them in the government, and promptly demanded an additional 15 seats in the council-just enough, Europeans noted, to give them a single-vote majority...
Outside Quebec, the Liberals' solid South, the Prime Minister's party has slumped badly since the last election, in the latest Gallup poll held a lead of only 2.6% over the Tories. Yet by sweeping Quebec's bloc of 75 Commons seats, the Liberals can ride out the Tory gains elsewhere. Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped...
Four songs later Antoine ("Fats") Domino Jr. had shown for the 97th time, in a grueling succession of one-night stands, why his reputation rivals that of Elvis Presley with rock 'n' roll fans. Leaving his audience in a happy lather, rock-solid Fats (215 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in.) trucked offstage to his dressing room...
With trembling eagerness the partners examined their ducks. One male and eight females were undergoing a strange metamorphosis. Their bills, which should have been the Pekin breed's solid orange, were turning greenish-black at the bases. Day after day the changes continued. At last Benoit and Leroy decided that they had new-style ducks that do not resemble their Pekin parents or the Khaki-Campbells from whose genitals their DNA had been taken-or even a hybrid between the two. Their feathers are soft and pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their...